I hope to see an Eumidean planeswalker who wants to find the best environment to make a new hive. Spark trigger: getting disconnected from her original hivemind

Huh, not gonna lie, pretty much the same idea crossed my mind one or two days ago. High five!

Speaking of Eumidians, I'm still hoping to see a creature of an obscure race like that in Dominaria. Eumidians, Chelonians, En'Jaga, shark people... just one little shout out to a race we've only seen in the novels but not on cards (I'm not really counting Xira Arien here). Heck, if nothing else I'd probably settle for more Cephalids and Nantuko...

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"Enchant me with your tale-telling. Tell about Tree, Grass, River, and Wind.Tell why Truth must fight with Falsehood, and why Truth will always win."—Love Song of Night and Day

I want to see green push more into the tradition side of things. It doesn't have to be about loving nature, or going back to a subsistence hunter gatherer lifestyle. You can just be opposing social change. It can be about carrying on the legacy of your ancestors.

*"To YMTC it up" means to design cards that have value mostly from a design perspective. i.e. you would put them in a case under glass in your living room and visitors could remark upon the wonderful design principles, with nobody ever worring if the cards are annoying/pointless/confusing in actual play

I want to see green push more into the tradition side of things. It doesn't have to be about loving nature, or going back to a subsistence hunter gatherer lifestyle. You can just be opposing social change. It can be about carrying on the legacy of your ancestors.

I have exactly that in the MEM. A ronin walker from a Meiji era inspired plane.

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At twilight's end, the shadow's crossed / a new world birthed, the elder lost.Yet on the morn we wake to find / that mem'ry left so far behind.To deafened ears we ask, unseen / "Which is life and which the dream?"

As I assume most of you are aware, the sit-com “Roseanne” recently returned to television. People turned out in droves to watch the initial two episodes and it immediately got picked up for a second season. Roseanne, in turn, decided she wanted to expand the show’s writing staff. I used to write for “Roseanne” (if somehow you didn’t know that). Lesser known though is how well I got along with Roseanne during my time on the show.

From out of the blue last week, she called me with an offer to join the writing staff. Originally, I had planned to be a comedy writer and I put that on hold to try my hand at game design. Over this last week, I’ve been weighing this offer aware that I had always planned one day to return to comedy. Leaving Wizards is not an easy decision, but one I eventually realized I needed to make. So, it seems fitting that today (as Easter is symbolically a day of rebirth) I officially let you all know that I am leaving Magic to return to writing for “Roseanne”.

Spoiler

This, of course, was posted on April Fools.

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magicpablo666 wrote:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

buzzsawmanpants asked:So, why was the common symbol colour changed for dominaria? I can't really think of what a reason would be for that.

markrosewater said:One of the constraints of expansion symbols is no one can look like another one, so if someone sees a card in a vacuum, they can identify, without any confusion, what set it comes from. The common Dominarian expansion Symbol was changed to white because in black it looked too similar to the common Darksteel expansion Symbol.

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magicpablo666 wrote:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

*"To YMTC it up" means to design cards that have value mostly from a design perspective. i.e. you would put them in a case under glass in your living room and visitors could remark upon the wonderful design principles, with nobody ever worring if the cards are annoying/pointless/confusing in actual play

I’ve finally got my hands on good quality Invention scans! So here is a project I had been wanting to do since I saw all of these magnificent pieces of art by @thesteamhat a few months ago. Here are a set of moxen proxies in Invention frames.

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magicpablo666 wrote:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

tungsten-pyre asked:Can I get some birthday trivia for my favourite tribe: The Viashino from Jund?

markrosewater said:I believe the Viashino were named so we could make the Viashivan joke in Visions.

Happy Birthday!

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magicpablo666 wrote:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

sliverpw asked:There were no slivers on Dominaria (understood why), but now there appears to be no slivers in M19, the best place you could put them. Are slivers players going to have to wait for M20 as the next possible set for them because they take up too much design space in regular expansion sets? #Makesliversappearagain

markrosewater said:I announced at Blogatog Live, that we have Slivers planned for a product in our pipeline (which goes out to about 2023).

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magicpablo666 wrote:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

Maybe they plan on having slivers be the next 'big bad', with a planeswalking sliver that spawns more slivers on planes it visits, or a bunch of slivers that can together somehow send slivers to other planes to make new hives, perhaps by turning slivers temporarily to stone in a way they automatically break out of, and then generating as a group a new type of magic portal between planes? They'd be an ecological threat across multiple planes to motivate gatewatch involvement, but not actually evil, just mostly instinctively spreading? Or maybe they figure out how to reverse the feature of Shandalar that brought them there from elsewhere and start sending slivers to planes Shandalar interacts with in whatever weird way it does stuff like that?

More likely there is either a Core Set in the future plan that has them, we are going back to Dominaria and getting to see more of the Slivers, or we are finally going to visit the Sliver homeworld.

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magicpablo666 wrote:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

markrosewater said:Elder has gone over well, so I think the chance of seeing other Elder creature types has gone up.

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magicpablo666 wrote:

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!"

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